hey, I know how hard weight loss can be. I've lost 30 pounds in the last year. Its been slow going, but I haven't had any problems keeping it off. My weight issues were mostly caused by the fact that I was eating stuff I thought was good for me, and it really wasn't, like having crackers for a snack instead of cookies. My doctor showed me how to read labels, and what it all meant, so I could figure out that the crackers actually had more calories than the cookies! I also had virtually no fruits and veggies in my diet. My excuse for this was "I don't like fruits and vegetables!" Turns out that I do. I may not like apples and oranges, but I've discovered stuff like blackberries, cherries, strawberries (with non fat whipped cream, or rolled in brown sugar) bananas, starfruit, kiwi, mango and guava. I may not like green beans or broccoli, but I love campbell's vegetable soup. My doc taught me how to replace stuff that I shouldn't be eating with stuff that I should be eating that still tasted good, and I never feel hungry.
I eat about 1900 calories a day, don't eat red meat (unless a prime rib happens to materialize in front of me, in that case, exceptions must be made), eat more fish than any other kind of meat, and snack on veggies instead of potato chips. I don't eat ice cream, but I eat sorbet and homemade popsicles (with real fruit juice, like OJ or some of the Diet V8 splash juices). I also give myself one day a week (sunday for me) where I can eat anything I want and calories be damned. That way, if I see something sweet during the week, its much easier to pass on it, because I tell myself "I can eat it on sunday." and then sunday comes, and one can only eat so many sweet things in one day, so I end up eating fewer sweet things overall, and don't feel deprived, or guilty, because I ate it on my "free day."
I also exercise daily (except sunday). I go to karate or I go to the gym. one or the other. every day. I figured out pretty quick that I can't go home before I go to the gym, because I have so much home stuff to do that I never get there. I throw my gym clothes in the car in the morning, and change when I get there. It takes away my excuses, and once you get in the routine, its easy.
I eat about 1900 calories a day, don't eat red meat (unless a prime rib happens to materialize in front of me, in that case, exceptions must be made), eat more fish than any other kind of meat, and snack on veggies instead of potato chips. I don't eat ice cream, but I eat sorbet and homemade popsicles (with real fruit juice, like OJ or some of the Diet V8 splash juices). I also give myself one day a week (sunday for me) where I can eat anything I want and calories be damned. That way, if I see something sweet during the week, its much easier to pass on it, because I tell myself "I can eat it on sunday." and then sunday comes, and one can only eat so many sweet things in one day, so I end up eating fewer sweet things overall, and don't feel deprived, or guilty, because I ate it on my "free day."
I also exercise daily (except sunday). I go to karate or I go to the gym. one or the other. every day. I figured out pretty quick that I can't go home before I go to the gym, because I have so much home stuff to do that I never get there. I throw my gym clothes in the car in the morning, and change when I get there. It takes away my excuses, and once you get in the routine, its easy.
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). The best exercise is the one you'll do regularly. There's an absolutely brutal workout called guerilla cardio. It's a 4 minute run at 50% then 4 minutes of 20 second all out, puking sprints, followed by a 10 second rest, then sprint, rest, etc. then a 4 minute run at 50%. That hurts like %&##. I would think you could adapt that to a bag workout. Continuous for 5 minutes, then all out, form be damned beating on the bag for 30 seconds, rest 10, repeat, then finish with 5 minutes continuous focusing on form. Should probably help with speed too. Hey, I might have to try that myself. I hate running.
I enjoy to eat real food, use real sugar with my tea and real butter with my snakes and desserts. Hee hee, I got my Cream Brulee done while I was dancing this morning. 
